Joseph McCabe

This is the fascinating and never before told true-life story of the man who led the filming of what is the definitive film record we have today of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As one of the first outsiders into Japan at the end of hostilities, Dan McGovern started to film firstly amid the death and destruction of Nagasaki only weeks after the dropping of the atomic bombs. This three-part, highly researched biography tells the full story of how the often harrowing footage of those destroyed cities was shot and of how McGovern safeguarded that footage for posterity despite decades of US government suppression. Earlier, 'Big Mack' was designated cameraman and photographer to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before being chosen to train the very first combat cameramen of World War Two for the then United States Army Air Forces. This was after he had first established the USAAF's Combat Camera Training School in Hollywood, California where he worked with some of the most celebrated actors and directors of his day. 'Rebels to Reels', also for the very first time, tells the full story of how McGovern trained those cameramen before he himself deployed to England from where he flew perilous combat missions over Nazi occupied Europe. Readers glean a unique 'fly on the fuselage' experience as 'Rebels to Reels' brings them on McGovern's B-17 missions as he filmed. This biography also contains Dan's remarkable accounts of his involvement in the UFO Roswell Incident and of the transition of the USAAF into the United States Air Force - the 75th Anniversary of which occurs in 2022. However, Dan's story begins not in America, but in his native Ireland where, as a boy and the son of a policemen of the Royal Irish Constabulary, McGovern associated with the infamous Black and Tans as he eye-witnessed the Irish War of Independence unfold and later the partitioning of Ireland with the foundation of Northern Ireland in 1921 and the Irish Free State the following year the centenary of which also occurs this year. This biography is a must for anyone who loves a great story but it will particularly appeal to anyone with an interest in History, Military History and World War 2; Photography, Film and the history of both, Aviation and the history of Policing.

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Joseph Martin McCabe was born on the 12th November 1867 in Macclesfield, Cheshire to a family of Irish Catholic background. At 15 he entered the Franciscan order and spent a year of preliminary study at Gorton Monastery and then a novitiate year in Killarney before Forest Gate in London for the remainder of his priestly education. In 1890 he was ordained as Father Antony. McCabe was an outstanding scholar of philosophy, and was sent for a year (1893-1894) to study at the Catholic University of Louvain where he learnt Hebrew and, less successfully, Syriac. In October 1895 he was put in charge of the newly founded Franciscan college in Buckingham. He had however become plagued with doubts about his faith and was to leave both that post and the priesthood in February 1896. McCabe wrote a pamphlet on his experiences, 'From Rome to Rationalism', published in 1897, which he then expanded into a book as 'Twelve Years in a Monastery' (1897). By now he was decidedly anti-Catholic and sought to undermine religious faith in general. From 1898 he became secretary of the Leicester Secular Society, and was a founding board member in 1899 of the Rationalist Press Association of Great Britain. During his lifetime he wrote in the order of 250 books and pamphlets on science, religion, politics, history. In amongst this huge canon are two of his many books on the Roman Empire detailing the lives of the various mistresses and queens in the Western (Rome) and Eastern (Constantinople) Empires. McCabe was also respected as a speaker and delivered, it is believed, several thousand lectures. A staunch advocate of women's rights he worked with both Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Wolstenholme-Elmy on speeches advocating the right for British women to vote. As the years aged him he became ever more militant in freethought (an epistemological viewpoint that on positions regarding truth they should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma). In his essays 'The Myth of the Resurrection' (1925) and 'Did Jesus Ever Live' (1926) McCabe slammed Christianity as a direct representation of older Pagan beliefs. Slain saviors and their resurrection myths were celebrated across the ancient world before Christianity began. He saw numerous errors, conflicts, contradictions in the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection and thought them unreliable as they had been fabricated over the years by many different writers. McCabe came to the conclusion that Jesus was an Essenian holy man who was turned into a God over the years by hearsay and oral tradition. In the late 1940's, McCabe accused the Encyclop dia Britannica of bias towards the Catholic Church and levelled the same a few years later at the Columbia Encyclopedia. He was labelled a "Catholic basher" by his Christian critics. McCabe retorted that "Catholics are no worse, and no better, than others." In 1920 he publicly debated the writer and believer Arthur Conan Doyle on the claims of Spiritualism in London. McCabe had exposed the tricks of fraud mediums and wrote that Spiritualism has no scientific basis. Joseph Martin McCabe died on 10th January 1955 at the age of 87.

Joseph Martin McCabe was born on the 12th November 1867 in Macclesfield, Cheshire to a family of Irish Catholic background. At 15 he entered the Franciscan order and spent a year of preliminary study at Gorton Monastery and then a novitiate year in Killarney before Forest Gate in London for the remainder of his priestly education. In 1890 he was ordained as Father Antony. McCabe was an outstanding scholar of philosophy, and was sent for a year (1893-1894) to study at the Catholic University of Louvain where he learnt Hebrew and, less successfully, Syriac. In October 1895 he was put in charge of the newly founded Franciscan college in Buckingham. He had however become plagued with doubts about his faith and was to leave both that post and the priesthood in February 1896. McCabe wrote a pamphlet on his experiences, 'From Rome to Rationalism', published in 1897, which he then expanded into a book as 'Twelve Years in a Monastery' (1897). By now he was decidedly anti-Catholic and sought to undermine religious faith in general. From 1898 he became secretary of the Leicester Secular Society, and was a founding board member in 1899 of the Rationalist Press Association of Great Britain. During his lifetime he wrote in the order of 250 books and pamphlets on science, religion, politics, history. In amongst this huge canon are two of his many books on the Roman Empire detailing the lives of the various mistresses and queens in the Western (Rome) and Eastern (Constantinople) Empires. McCabe was also respected as a speaker and delivered, it is believed, several thousand lectures. A staunch advocate of women's rights he worked with both Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Wolstenholme-Elmy on speeches advocating the right for British women to vote. As the years aged him he became ever more militant in freethought (an epistemological viewpoint that on positions regarding truth they should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma). In his essays 'The Myth of the Resurrection' (1925) and 'Did Jesus Ever Live' (1926) McCabe slammed Christianity as a direct representation of older Pagan beliefs. Slain saviors and their resurrection myths were celebrated across the ancient world before Christianity began. He saw numerous errors, conflicts, contradictions in the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection and thought them unreliable as they had been fabricated over the years by many different writers. McCabe came to the conclusion that Jesus was an Essenian holy man who was turned into a God over the years by hearsay and oral tradition. In the late 1940's, McCabe accused the Encyclop dia Britannica of bias towards the Catholic Church and levelled the same a few years later at the Columbia Encyclopedia. He was labelled a "Catholic basher" by his Christian critics. McCabe retorted that "Catholics are no worse, and no better, than others." In 1920 he publicly debated the writer and believer Arthur Conan Doyle on the claims of Spiritualism in London. McCabe had exposed the tricks of fraud mediums and wrote that Spiritualism has no scientific basis. Joseph Martin McCabe died on 10th January 1955 at the age of 87.

Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that spirits of the deceased exist and are able to communicate with living people. It began to develop in the 1840s and had reached its peak of popularity by the 1920s, particularly in English-speaking countries. First published in 1920, "Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud?" is an investigation into the authenticity of spiritualism and related claims by Joseph McCabe, examining evidence from many sources and accounts including Sir A. C. Doyle. Contents include: "Mediums: Black, White, and Grey", "How Ghosts are Made", "The Mystery of Raps and Levitations", "Spirit Photographs and Spirit Pictures", "A Chapter of Ghostly Accomplishments", "The Subtle Art of Clairvoyance", "Messages from the Spirit World", "Automatic Writing", and "Ghost-land and its Citizens". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's gifts to France arguably outvalued the vast personal fortune he amassed in her service. Once a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States. Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna.

In this book from 1920, freethinker and former Catholic priest Joseph McCabe critiques the spiritualist movement, which was then in its heyday. Particularly, he builds on his public debate with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and spiritualist champion to attack spiritualist claims as a whole. Whether one agrees with McCabe overall, I think any reader will be forced to concede he makes some very salient points. It is indeed unfortunate that for instance so much of spiritualism and other doctrines are clearly based on emotional appeal, as Conan Doyle openly admitted. That is, the desire for loved ones not to be dead. Who could blame any person for wanting this? McCabe doesn't, certainly, but as he makes clear that is not enough. If we want to convince others with reason rather than just passion, we must argue based on the evidence. A classic in rationalism and critical thinking which any reader interested in such topics will enjoy.

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The War and the Churches tells about religious life during World War One. The first question which the unprejudiced inquirer will seek to answer is: How far were the Churches able to prevent, yet remiss in using their influence to prevent, the present war? There is, unhappily, in these matters no such thing as an entirely unprejudiced inquirer. Our preconceived ideas act like magnets on the material of evidence which is submitted to us, instinctively selecting what bears in their favour and declining to receive what they cannot utilise. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the field of religious inquiry, nor is it confined to either believers or unbelievers. There has been too much mutual abuse, and too little attention to the fact that the mind no less than the mouth has its palate, its impulsive selections and rejections. One can meet the difficulty only by a patient and full examination of the pleas of both parties to a controversy.